- Cubans, Brothers, Fiction, Illegal aliens
**Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family's escape from Cuba, Michael's only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Mike Lupica
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 220
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc., Penguin Young Readers Group, Puffin
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780399243011
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